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The first time that my work ever appeared in a print article was in May 1992. This single article set the stage for what was to come, and what brought me to this very moment in time. Indie for life. Literally.

Chuck Norris didn't join the Marine Corps...the Marine Corps applied to him. Heaven’s streets have always been guarded by Marines. Today, Chuck Norris reported for duty. We mourn the passing of Chuck Norris, a @usairforce veteran, who also became an honorary Marine in 2007 when awarded the title by then Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James T. Conway. Chuck Norris is one of just over 100 individuals to be awarded the title of Honorary Marine in the entire 250-year history of the Corps. Some missions may require a battalion, but this one just requires an Honorary Marine. #USMCHistory #USMC #SemperFidelis

@kevinrose Windsurf. Everything else is noise.

thanks, all, tons of great options here.

got a new laptop, setting things up, what IDE should I go with? was vscode, just want minimal + tmux

Iran shot down an F35 using the very heatseeking missile whose ground rader system it was designed to evade.

I once wrote an entire AI language (AILOG) from scratch; then paired it with a neural net. All to power my first game because what I wanted didn't exist at the time. This was before we even had scripting or AI tools in games, and back when, to common folk, custom engines and tools built for games were considered alchemy. That was in the nineties. The end result was a living, breathing universe that simulated universal conflict - in space and on planets - even in places you've never been or likely to ever go. That kernel also powered the behaviors and movements of an entire crew of 100+ personnel instead a massive ship hurtling through space. They work, consume, fight, rest. No user prompt. No babysitting. As they progress, they learn and improve on skills & knowledge. All in real-time. Some years ago, I managed to get it working on modern machines, and deployed it on Steam. As of this writing, nobody has ever made a game like that - in any form or factor. It wasn't easy. It was fraught with challenges, missteps - and for good measure - a healthy dose of hubris. That's not a flex. It's conviction. When some are rooting for you to fail or they question the veracity of that which they don't understand because they're intellectually ignorant in every measure of man, the key is to just ignore the noise. Today, as I look at how AI continues to improve, inform and educate, I can't help but feel that some of us were way ahead of our time. Not because we came from or saw the future, but because, like those that came before, we were insightful and hopeful. And because we dared to defy. AI tools will continue to improve, even as many will fall by the wayside while leaving a crater where VC 'funny money' used to be. It's not even that the best will survive as that metric is reserved for those that serve a widespread meaningful purpose. To wit: Why would any sane dev use Google's rushed, half-baked potpourri of pain, AntiGravity, over Windsurf? Microsoft's woefully inept CoPilot over, well, anything else, really? And while all are falling over models and mania over Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Grok (lol) etc. the reality is that they're all vastly flawed for the simple fact that human knowledge from which they are derived and trained, is itself inherently flawed. Garbage in, garbage out. Hope for the best. You simply can't fix stupid. It's why you can run the same tests on all these models and yet come up with vastly different output. Most of it flawed. They're not hallucinating. They're creating context data from connections they cannot understand in much the same way that I could walk up to a random person in the street and expect them to know what the FFT equation is. At the end of the day, the AI race - at least in terms of consumer consumption - won't be won by the best but by the most hyped. Go forth. Prosper. Defy. store.steampowered.com/app/1755420/Ba…

@MartinusV2 Don't tempt me, man. 🤣

@dsmart So ummmm BC3000ad somewhere on github? ;)

Feed a man fish for a day, and he'll survive. Teach him how to fish, and he becomes self-sufficient. As superstars who were believed to be wielders of digital alchemy, after years of making games for the people who buy and play them, we went and taught them how to make games. The ensuing hilarity of what happens when gamers can just make their own games instead of buying ours, will be studied by alien civilizations trolling through our digital history.

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I'm dyin'. This whole thread. 🤣🤣🤣

The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ?si… via @YouTube

Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/…

It's bound to get worse. But go ahead and give your hapless agents CLI access to your mission-critical data. I will say a prayer for you.

This is likely to be a rather grating and unpopular take, but I'm just going to say it. I believe that the primary reason why our games industry is in a never-before-seen rut is because most of the legacy people who actually cared, did the right thing, and nurtured the craft, are gone. Either retired, died, moved to less volatile vocations, cashed out - or just took a back seat (they're called advisors now) far away from the front lines of the fray. Also greed. Once profits over all else became the norm, the die was cast. It's unsustainable. And once those looking for jobs exit the sector, they're not likely to return because they would be foolish to do so. Which means that, brain drain aside, recovery is going to be fraught with missteps and consequential machinations which aren't likely to solve anything. Get out while you still can because, if like some of us, it's too late and you intend to stick around until the final days, it's inevitable that you will live to regret it in much the same way that the last two years were unprecedented and unforeseen. Save yourself because, in truth, nobody is coming to save you. It's mostly lies and feel good bs - to your detriment. I helped build this. All of it. And I'm not going anywhere anytime soon.

This is DOA. I can 99.999999% guarantee it. If it ever sees the light of day, that is. They're trying to shove "layered" AI into the one place that the tribe (aka gamers) are likely to collectively rebel against. I mean, it's almost as if Microsoft isn't reading the room when it comes to how gamers regard AI "stuffing". The ensuing fallout is going to be hilariously brutal. I mean, they're already banning "Microslop" across the board. Now this. ps. Most of us already figured out that this is where they were likely going, but we didn't believe they were actually brave enough to do it. We were so wrong.

Grok is a shite model. It's why nobody mentions it in the same breath as other AI models. I don't believe that it is particularly designed to 'defend Israel'. The whole model is just shite. I mean, below is my latest arg with it, in which I actually got it to admit to being wrong, and stupid, and shite. x.com/dsmart/status/…

We've reached a new level of absurdity. I mean, seriously. They're literally censoring harmless banter. And it's spreading. Slowly, then all at once. I envision this being an inbound massive PR nightmare for Microsoft because gamers are particularly adept at any raising the roof for the most stupid of causes. This isn't that.

@iceyyy_gaming That's just the same as storing it in X bookmark Browser bookmark Dymst Raindrop OneNote Joplin Obsidian <any generic web clipper> Except, in OpenClaw, you'll never find it. Ever. 🤣

STOP BOOKMARKING ARTICLES AND POSTS That is not how you win in 2026 You will never go back and read all those bookmarks Instead, do this Send the post/article to your OpenClaw And your agent will review, analyze, and decide what to do with the information

Footage of Kuwaiti locals approaching one of the shot down American pilots this morning. “Are you OK? Thank you for helping us.”

Yes, very impressive Indeed.

@IslanderWORLD Nonsense. That video is from June 2025. instagram.com/reel/DK-dKzrtD…

That is the sky over Israel — Iranian ballistic missiles pouring through seemingly without end in what was supposed to be the most sophisticated air defence architecture in the world. It is not being stress-tested. It is being hammered. This is the salvo doctrine Iran spent eight years building specifically to do this — flood Patriot, exhaust THAAD, drain Arrow 3, and let the mathematics of empty magazines finish the work. Layer by layer. Night by night. Stocks of interceptors at dangerously low quantities. Is this why Bibi fled? Did he know what was coming when he boarded that plane and flew to Berlin — leaving the Israeli people to endure the consequences of his bloodlust, his arrogance, and his incompetence? The man invoked the lion’s roar and the eternity of Israel, told his people to brace for heavy costs, then fled not like a lion but like a cowardly rat.

The mods chose violence. 🤣